The wine industry is incredibly capital-intensive. You have to understand the lag time between when the grapes are harvested to when they are matured in the barrel to the time they make it into the market. That's forgetting, starting from the very beginning, that there's a six-year or seven-year gap before all of that. There is a lot of capital involved.
What we're talking about with this grant proposal is specifically for infrastructure. Whether it's increased tankage, the building of a tourism enterprise like a restaurant, it's all about leveraging the product that the winery has today.
You have to understand, as well, that we're talking about really small, family-owned businesses. Of the 260 grape wineries here in B.C., we know that 80% of them are small producers. That's 20,000 cases or less. To be able to have access to the capital to expand their business is critically important. As I said, we know the return would be there multifold.